Shuhei Yoshida Confirms That You Can Fully Install Disc Games on PS4′s HDD

A few days ago SCE Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida caused a bit of confusion about the installation of disc-based games on the PS4. Today he clarified confirming that you can indeed fully install disc games on the console's HD, and shared more info on the DualShock 4's 3.5 connector.
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I don't think this has to do with Vita Remote Play since the actual question says "Dear Shuei. Will we be able to do full game installs to HDD from disc (Disc present in tray for verification) on PS4?" If you still need the disc in you aren't going to be able to access all your other games from the Vita. Also, at that point what would stop you from selling your physical disc if you could still access it digitally.

PS4 doesn't require installations from discs, it's just an option. Considering the disc must be in the drive when you launch a disc based installed game, I'm not sure how much I'll use this feature. I'll be eating up enough space from digital downloads haha.

THANK GOD! That should help a lot to reduce the loading times. That's the only feature that I liked about my 360, that I could install the games on the hard drive.

God knows how much I hated the load times in Fallout games! I wish PS3 allowed us to install games on disk (and keep the disc in for security/verification reasons). I never really cared about cross game chats. The ONLY thing I miss on PS3 is optional disk install.

I think it's an optional install, similar to the 360. Which is great news. Definitely not going to be like what the xbone was going to be like. So most likely no remote play on ps4 games for vita unless it is digital or disk in machine.

PS Consoles is always the leader!!!Quality games and quality products is always best!!!u xbots better shut-up, cry all u want in PS section in this site... we will enjoy ours while others cry cry cry!!! PS4 here i come!!!

"If KHIII, MGSV and FFXV were exclusives to PS4 like FFX, KH and MGSII were for PS2 then yes yall can assume it gonna do remotely good as PS2."

Than Sony just created a new IP, just like they created Uncharted, The Last of Us, Killzone, Heavy Rain, LBP, Demon's Souls, inFamous, etc for PS3. They had talented people who can created franchise as good as KH, MGS, or FF. I'm sure you knew that those titles from Sony sold millions of copies and help sony sold many PS3 units worldwide.

And Sony still can work with 3rd party dev like the old time to created amazing games exclusively for PS4. Just like Level 5, Vanillaware, NIS, Falcom, SEGA, Namco, Atlus, or ArcSystemWork who don't mind to created their games exclusively for Sony console ;)

So i don't see the reason why PS4 can't sell as great as PS2. Even some title not exclusive anymore for sony console ;)

Actually price would be the bigger indicator of video games sales. The cheaper consoles sell the most.

Seeing how the PS4 is $100 cheaper than the XBO and will have mostly the same games, at the beginning at least, I expect the PS4 to outsell it by a good deal....at least if Sony can keep up with increased demand.

But then again my friend games like Uncharted and TLOU have made such a massive impact in gaming that just waiting for their sequels can push a lot of sales alone. Plus don't forget that Sony is presumed to have the most powerful console and Mark Cerny also mentioned that when it comes to developing for the console is like back with the PS2 less time and more easy to develop for, so games would look better thanks to the power that the PS4 holds within and finally don't forget that there is still many games that didn't make it to this gen like jack and daxter.

There is a lot of potential for the PS4 to become as great as the PS2 and who knows it might even surprise us and surpass it but that is just my opinion

This is a no brainer, they had it on the PS3, only makes sense to incorporate it on the PS4. Installed games always run better then disc based (no installation done) games. I haven't forgotten the horror days living in fear every day while playing games on my 360 and I can hear the fans just spinning away. Thing sounded like a jet lol

I got a Pulse set last month. Sound great *and* super versatile. Use them on living room PS3, pop out dongle to move to bedroom PS3, use them for conference calls, for listening to stuff on my laptop, for mixing records, will use on PS4... can't beat 'em.

I saw that during the Gamescom press conference, the controller that Shu was holding had a RED light lit up when he started the console...

Does anyone else think that this could possibly mean a customizeable LED configuration?

For example, make blue the second player and red the first player?

That would be really cool, and I really hope I can do that, because I wanna buy that Magma Red Dualshock 4 that Sony announced, but just for the sake of matching I might be annoyed that the PS4 light and DS4 lights are both blue while I'm holding this red ass controller in my hands...

I understand that this is probably a lot to ask considering I am not a computer expert and have no idea how hard these kinds of options would be to implement in the first place, but just for the sake of a wish list, I'm putting it on there :) a man can dream.

He answers everything else just fine, but this is a language barrier confusion..please. Even so, I thought it would've been strange for the PS4 really not be able to do this. Nice 180 though...clears things up nicely.

Fair point.... But it's not really a 180 because he's not reversing a policy/feature that was already set in stone. It's more of a clearification than an actual 180. A 180 would involve a decision being made this doesn't.

C'mon man, i know you're desperate for Sony to gain the same level of notoriety for policy reversal and actual backpeddling as Microsoft, so you can feel slightly better about your decisions, but this is a pretty bad attempt.

Instead of reading data off the disc, it would just read it off the HDD.. so you may see some benefits from this like faster loading times and such. Overall the system just flat out handles transfering game data better when it's on the HDD dierectly.

I had a similar issue just the other way around. I discovered 360's disc drive was broken when I tried to insert a new game (the clicking was horrifying). The only thing the drive could do anymore was perform the disc verification for installed games. So, I spent the summer playing Halo 3 until I had time to send in the 360 to Microsoft.

Why in the blue hell would any competent company on the entire face of planet earth actually let you install a game from the disc onto the HDD of the system and then play the game without the disc having to be in the tray? That would be the stupidest thing ANY company would do, idiots would install it and immediately rush out to trade the game.....

Aside from the fact that it generally gives you faster load times....AND more importantly it isn't beating the hell out of your disc drive..The damn 360 sounds like a jet taking off or a tank which is all just tearing up your tray

Thanks for the info, but I wasn't referring to anything. If I was I would have said 3 Musketeers. I was unaware he had ever said that. Since you brought it up though, I have increased my "Amigos" to 4.

Thats cause other consoles were knowingly released defective in several different ways...So that company got to spend at least 6 of its 8 years in existence constantly repairing the defective machines....Between knowing for a fact 55% were going to get RROD, failing to put the rubber stoppers on the disc drive and the E74 error the least they could do is let you instal the game to your jet engine

yup, but I wonder then if people have sweet pc headphones with mic, would you be able to plug them in there? I already have pulse too, but I do like my surround system for when my gf is out... the dogs hide though LOL

I'd say that turning any pair of standard headphones into wireless (via DS4) for game audio (not just voice) is pretty cool. I won't really need it since I have a Pulse headset, but if the batteries ran down in the Pulse, it looks like I could just jack into the controller and keep going.

You see, I know you're not supposed to be a fanboy. But so many of your comments- particularly the Sony-related ones- seem to be aimed at nitpicking minor, nigh-irrelevant things. And generalizing, while you're at it(or if not generalizing, then being very vague).

Well I'll be honest, I have both preordered and I find that there are a lot of pro-Sony people on this site. I feel kind of bad that the One gets so much hate. I like to comment on things that people disliked about the 360 but seem ok with if it's related to Sony such as multiplayer paywall, plugging in a headset into the controller, too much Halo (look at Uncharted series which I commented on yesterday) MS gets too much hate. Everybody spells it M$, talks sh#t about everything MS tries to do, downplays them and hopes they back out of the industry. I just think that a lot of people who complain about 360 and One never owned one and just want to be anti-something.

When people come up with retorts to anti-MS comments or pro-Sony comments, they get negged even if it's completely honest and valid.

@element. Microsoft gets flak because every thing they do has some selfish twist to it... Evrrything on the 360 was needlessly proprietary and expensive...live paywall gave you nothing but the privilege of playing your games online and some social features.. Plus actually has value and is cheaper.. plugging headsets into the 360 controller was chat only, on ps4 its chat and audio..

lets not forget the expensive wifi adaptor, hd-dvd drive, lack of hdmi port in the begining, proprietary harddrives, and rushed shoddy hardware... the slim is the console they should have made from day1.... Microsoft is sleeping in the bed they made, they deserve a lot of criticism....

I can't recall any Sony fan saying plugging the headset into the controller was lame. But it's hard to say that what PS4 is doing with it isn't better, since it's not proprietary, and allows for ALL the game sound, and not just chat.

This generation, Halo became an annual series. You can TRY to bring up Uncharted or God of War- as many have- but both of those franchises would require you to own multiple consoles (the PSP as well as PS3, and a PS2 as well, in the case of GOW). Furthermore, a large part of the criticism over the amount of Halo stemmed from the lack of other notable exclusives being released over the life of the 360. Halo led the same four franchises, while Uncharted was one of MANY exclusive IPs for the PS3. That means they're not in the same category.

Nobody likes the paywall... I say that, but quite a few MS fans were happy to do so, when all it afforded you was the ability to play online and voice chat across games. I haven't used Live all that much, but being a former GameStop employee, I've heard about the difference: it really ONLY amounted to cross-game chat; there were CLAIMS that XBL was faster, but never any proof, and more games had dedicated servers on PS3 than 360. Plus simply gives more value, so there's seriously no comparing it to XBLG, which means it's not so hypocritical.

Unlike Sony or Nintendo, Microsoft's actions within the industry appear solely motivated by money. As opposed to the other two, they don't seem to concerned with giving their gamers actual value, or providing them with exclusives, or even ensuring their hardware(the RROD extended warranty was essentially FORCED on them). So they get the M$ moniker.

Their criticisms ARE warranted right now. They haven't done much to instill confidence in their consumers or prospective buyers. And in lots of cases, they've actually done the opposite. I'm quick to admit I don't like Microsoft, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to play the games on their console... not directly.

It's the stupid crap they do that stops me. And it's that stupid crap that's got everybody "hating" on them right now. It's really as simple as that.

Not all games take 50GB of space, in fact a majority of the games don't. I think the first game to need such a large amount of space was Metal Gear Solid 4 which is why they didn't port it to Xbox 360 because a game on 4-5 disks would look pretty bad for Microsoft and show why Blu-ray was a great investment for Sony. The last time games needed that amount of disks was on Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX for PS1